Davor Toth

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
Croatia • hello@dtothproject.com
GitLab • LinkedIn

Summary

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with a QA background and 3+ years of experience operating and automating Linux-based production systems. Experienced in CI/CD pipeline ownership, infrastructure automation, containerized workloads, and monitoring. Regularly involved in incident investigation, root cause analysis, and building automation to improve system reliability and developer workflows.

Core Skills

Operating Systems & Platforms

Linux (production), Ubuntu, Debian

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, LXC, Proxmox

CI/CD & Automation

CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Playwright, Bash, Python

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

Terraform, Ansible

Cloud & DevOps Concepts

Infrastructure automation, scalability, high availability, reliability engineering, DevOps best practices

Programming & Scripting

Python, Go, Bash, Git, SQL

Monitoring, Logging & Operations

Monitoring, logging, observability, incident response, root cause analysis

AI & Developer Productivity

Agentic AI systems, AI-assisted development workflows, test automation augmentation

Professional Experience

Software Quality Engineer - Mono Software

Dec 2024 – Jun 2026 | Osijek

  • Designed and implemented a Playwright-based automated testing framework from scratch across multiple services, establishing a foundation for reliable CI-driven quality gates.
  • Built and maintained CI pipelines integrated with GitLab merge request workflows, enabling fast feedback and preventing regressions before deployment.
  • Independently learned and prototyped CI/CD workflows to support a client-facing presentation, demonstrating automated quality gates and pipeline-driven testing as a proof of concept.
  • Automated local environment setup using custom scripts, significantly reducing onboarding and setup time for developers.
  • Set up, configured, and monitored a Jenkins server in a self-hosted lab environment as a proof of concept, demonstrating nightly and weekly automated test suite executions, reporting, and failure visibility.
  • Actively participated in debugging production issues by reproducing failures and tracing root causes across application and infrastructure layers.
  • Authored technical articles documenting automation approaches and engineering decisions.
  • Led the design and implementation of an agentic AI-assisted development system used to extend and maintain the automated testing suite, enabling faster test creation, refactoring, and feedback loops for developers and QA engineers.

Software Quality Engineer - TouchSupport

May 2024 – Dec 2024 | Remote

  • Ensured system reliability through automated and exploratory testing in fast-changing environments.
  • Automated bug reproduction and root cause analysis using Python, improving turnaround time for fixes.
  • Led testing efforts for major site refactors, contributing to a successful production launch with reduced post-release incidents.

L2 Linux Technician - TouchSupport

Jul 2022 – May 2024 | Remote

  • Operated and troubleshot Linux-based hosting environments supporting Magento 2, WordPress, and custom PHP applications.
  • Tuned Apache and Linux configurations on a per-site basis to improve stability, performance, and security.
  • Responded to and resolved platform-wide incidents with broad customer impact.
  • Worked in a ticket-driven environment with frequent context switching and production responsibility.
  • Developed Nemo Apache log parser (Python) for traffic analysis and incident diagnosis.
  • Trained and onboarded new technical staff on troubleshooting procedures and system management.

Projects

Multiplayer Game State Tracker

Real-time game tracking system with client-server architecture.

Technologies: Go, Docker, Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Server • Client

Nemo - Apache Log Parser

Built a Python-based log parser for analyzing Apache access logs. Used to explore traffic patterns and error behavior in real-world environments.

GitLab

Go + HTMX Starter Kit

Opinionated starter kit for building web applications. Implemented a clean baseline architecture using Go, HTMX, Docker, and Bootstrap. Focused on fast iteration, simple deployment, and extensibility.

GitLab

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner - 2026

Languages

  • Croatian - Native
  • English - C2

Interests

Homelabbing, self-hosting multi-node environments, monitoring and observability systems.